> > Do you know why the reset times out/fails? > > > > Because there are nothing connected to it. That should not be an issue. A read should just return 0xffff. And it should return 0xffff fast. The timing of the MDIO protocol is fixed. A read or a write takes a fixed number of cycles, independent of if there is a device there or not. The bus data line has a pullup, so if you try to access a missing device, you automatically read 0xffff. Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html